Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Remember when you hear yourself saying one day that you don't have time anymore to read or listen to music or look at paintings or go to the movies or do whatever feeds your head now. Then you're getting old. That means they got you, after all.

The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

The writers or artists I write about are not necessarily those I care most about (Shakespeare is still my favourite writer) but those whose work I feel has been neglected.